Improvement in hand stamp-cancelers



waited time pmu-fono.

Letters Patent No. 102,734, dated May 3, 1870; antedatezl March 16,1870. i

-Qon IMPROVEMENT IN HAND STAMP-CANCELRS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To whomz't may concern:

Be it known that I, LIVINGSTON B. VAN KLEEGK, of New York, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved 4Stamp-Canceler;and I do hereby declue that the' following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, which will enable those skilled in the. art to makeand usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawingsforming part of this specification.

Figure l represents aside elevation, partly in section of my improvedstamp-cancelen y Figure 2 is avertical rausverse section of the sume,

--taken in the plane of the line a: .'c, fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a detail vertical longitudinal section of the sume, showinga modiiicaton.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a. new` manner of constructing the bed ofstamp-cancelers, and consists in making the same sliding, so that it maybe forced down by the die, and iu arranginga series of stationarypiercing-tools, which are even with the bed, when the same is forced upby the vspring underneath, but which project beyond the bed intodepressions or bolsters provided in the under side vof -the die, whenthe is forced down upon the bed.'

A, in the drawings, represents the fixed bed of a stamp-cancelen ofordinary or suitable construction.

B is the upper hinged-arm of the canceler, carrying a stamping device ofsuitable construction.

Upon the stationary bed A is seta sliding bed, C,

which hasa shank, a, that fits into astationary v socket, b, as shown,and rests upon a suitable spring, @which keeps the sliding bed C up.

As the die is forced down upon the bed the latter will yield to theshock,`and the apparatus will not be injured. y

D is a pin, or pms, projecting from lthe bed A through the bed C,theirupper ends being flush with the surface of the bed C when theapparatus is undisturbed. But, when the die is forced down upon `the bedC, so that the same will also-be pressed down, the ends of the pins Dwill enter depressions provided for their reception in the die, asshown, and the paper stamped by the die and bed will, at the same time,be pierced by the pins D.

The pins D may be solid, as in fig. 1, or tubular, as in fig. 3. 'In thelatter case the depressions in the die may be omitted.

The pins or tubes D are attached to the bed A in any suitable manner. e

Having thus-described my'invention,

I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent- The piercing-pinsor tubes D, when attached to the, stationary bed A of thestamp-canceler, and when fitted through the sliding bed C of the Same,substantially as herein shown and described.

L. B. VAN KLEECK.

Witnesses:

WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

